Research Impact

Is your research findable, and does it show the contributions you’ve made over time and across disciplines?

We can help you build your scholarly profile, with tools and strategies designed to improve your work’s reach and better demonstrate its impact.

Manage your online presence 

Get started by taking our research impact challenge.

These daily "challenges" will show you how to:

  • Register your ORCID to create a stable digital identifier that links together your scholarly contributions
  • Claim your Google Scholar profile
  • Manage and preserve your work in a digital repository
  • Build your personal webpage and review your social media presence
  • Find metrics and rankings related to your research impact, and more

Explore our guides

For information on how to use library resources to find and understand impact factors, rankings, and metrics, see our guide to citation analysis

Schedule a consultation

Meet with a research specialist to discuss your scholarly presence in more depth and provide training on research impact tools and topics. 

Make an appointment.

Do you conduct health sciences research? We offer special consultations and trainings on research impact metrics and tools in the health sciences.

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